Apache Kylin v1.2 Release Announcement

Dec 23, 2015 • Luke Han

The Apache Kylin community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kylin v1.2, the first release after graduation.

Apache Kylin is an open source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Hadoop supporting extremely large datasets, original contributed from eBay Inc.

To download Apache Kylin v1.2 source code or binary package:
please visit the download page.

This is a major release which brings more stable, robust and well management version, Apache Kylin community resolved about 44 issues including bug fixes, improvements, and few new features.

Change Highlights

Kylin Core Improvement

Support Excel, Power BI and Tableau 9.1 KYLIN-596,KYLIN-1065
Improve small file management on HDFS KYLIN-702
Env shell script enhance for Hive HCatalog KYLIN-1081, KYLIN-1119
Dimenion column supports high cardinality over 10 million KYLIN-1099
Enhance job page loading performance KYLIN-1154
Make memory budget per query configurable KYLIN-1190

Main Bug Fixes

Save cube issue in edit model KYLIN-1168
Couldn’t change a cube’s name after it be created KYLIN-693
Cube list missing under project KYLIN-930
Error when join two sub-query KYLIN-1033
Filter like (A or false) yields wrong result KYLIN-1039
Support get MapReduce Job status for ResourceManager HA Env KYLIN-1067
Can not send email caused by Build Base Cuboid Data step failed KYLIN-1106
ResourceTool download/upload does not work in binary package KYLIN-1121
Kylin’s sample cube “kylin_sales_cube” couldn’t be saved KYLIN-1140
Unit test with minicluster doesn’t work on 1.x KYLIN-1155
Can’t parse DateFormat like ‘YYYYMMDD’ correctly in query KYLIN-1216

Upgrade
We recommend to upgrade to this version for better performance, stability and bug fixes.
Also to keep up to date with community with latest features and supports.

Support
Any issue or question during upgrade, please
open JIRA to Kylin project: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN/
or
send mail to Apache Kylin dev mailing list: dev@kylin.apache.org

Great thanks to everyone who contributed!